WEBRick auto generated SSL certificate

Rails
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Where do I look for/find the parameters that ::SSLCertName will accept
for WEBrick’s auto-generated certificate?

Specifically, I am trying to find out if there is a way to generate or
pass a unique certificate serial number each time the secure server
starts as Firefox borks after the first certificate due to them all
having the same serial number (presumably 0).

Regards,

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James B. wrote:

Where do I look for/find the parameters that ::SSLCertName will accept
for WEBrick’s auto-generated certificate?

OK. I found /ruby/1.8/webrick/ssl.rb and on line 54 I see:

cert.serial = 0

Now, the module call is:

module Utils
def create_self_signed_cert(bits, cn, comment)

So from the server script I see this:

:SSLCertName => [ [ “CN”, WEBrick::Utils::getservername ] ]

So there does not seem to me to be any way to pass a serial number to
ssl.rb. So is there a way to extend ssl.rb in the script or need I
modify ssl.rb for my installation to get a random (and hopefully unique)
certificate serial number?

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See Rails Trac Ticket #9551

Patch file for webrick/ssl.rb attached for anyone who cares.